Eric Busboom

Data science for social good, cocktails, robots and welding. Father of a bagpiper.

[Eric Busboom @ericbusboom]

@echo5juliet It’s mirrored to a second NAS and Glacier so I’m not actually worried.

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I'm thinking that @echo5juliet might appreciate this. Should I replace this drive if it still has 0 abnormal sectors?

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@LionBlogosphere Definitely True; Its right out of the UCSD Math Dept's report: "70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve members of the entering cohort"
https://t.co/zsntbuydlU

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@Nemtastic1 @wil_da_beast630 Yeah, some immigration policies ( H1B, grad school ) produce elite sub samples and some ( <redacted> ) produce very anti-elite sub samples.

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@wil_da_beast630 OTOH, the median ( ~ "mediocre" ) white guy is also at the 86th percentile of IQ for the planet and has been conquering and running it for the last 500 years, so he ought to have a lot of confidence.

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@Edmondif143061 @realBigBrainAI This is the best response, I think: the professor does not know how humans think so he can't be confident that an LLM isn't doing the same thing.

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@stocksplaining_ @JoshInEncinitas AFAICT For revocable the trust date is irrelevant, the tax reassessment is set by the date of the trustor's death. For irrevocable, the property was transferred at the time of the trust, so that's when the tax change happened. https://t.co/jlJXOnBO6O

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One of my vivd memories from 2012 was James Carville declaring that "Demographics is Destiny"

https://t.co/jgXpsq0ouY

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@FortressLugh The 50K figure over the years 1300 - 1850 for the European population works out to homicide rate of .6/100K, less than 1/50 of the rate in the middle ages. This is not a reign of terror; it was probably the least likely way a person would die. Directionally, the OP is correct.

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@SarahTheHaider "mostly about one woman" Seems to be the case for most NYT trend pieces.

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Sometimes I wish more writers used "moxie" and "verve"

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@meonshakedownst @wil_da_beast630 Yeah, for any pair of races, for equal propensity to kill, the number of each race killed should be equal.

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@justinskycak Justin, please post a link to the whole doc, and then repost it every day on every discussion of math education you see; it's the single best formulation of math pedagogy I've every read, and I suspect the only sensible one.

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@allTheYud @JimDMiller The plausible story is literally current policy in Brazil. https://t.co/HBx7a5G0Pv

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@mwheatfill @wholemars However, none of the LLMs I've tried were confused by this:

"My bicycle is broken. Should I take it to the bicycle shop in my car, or should I ride my bike?"

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@PhilipGreenspun @washingtonpost Which makes their eventual recognition even sweeter!
TBF tho, West's actual accomplishment, a FORTAN program using Kalman smoothing to estimate the mean geoid from radio altimetry, was pretty cool. She'd still be impressive if they told the truth.

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@PhilipGreenspun @washingtonpost Such a precocious 6 year old!

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@PeterMoskos @spiderstumbled @goatpurple1 Here is the comparison of homicide in the US and Europe across covid. Rates in Europe dropped a lot, as you would expect when people are locked in at home, but the US rates soared.

So, yeah, it was BLM depolicing.

https://t.co/EJpI8JupcE

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@TheFIREorg @thedispatch @glukianoff Absolutely govt driven censorship is bad ... but ... "incidents involving censorship attempts from ... government ... a third "

So, the uni is still 2x the size of the govt problem. "50% as much" is not "the biggest threat"